Golden Era Productions is the center for all audiovisual productions for the Scientology religion, responsible for producing, translating and making all of L. Ron Hubbard’s films, recorded lectures and printed scripture known and available to 11,000 Churches, missions and affiliated groups in 165 countries.

The Art Department designs the sets, props, locations, costumes and visual effects for all audiovisual production—totaling over 140 film and video properties in 2009 alone.

The Sets Construction shop at Golden Era Productions utilizes digitally encoded modeling machinery to create detailed stage elements for all broadcast events, in addition to a total of 250,000 square feet of sets.

Equipped to service multiple productions in 3 sound stages, the Make-Up Department creates cosmetic applications for every type of shoot, including historical, special effects and prosthetics.

7,500 actors cast this past year in film productions at Golden Era Productions were outfitted by the Wardrobe Department, many with tailor-made costumes, specially designed and handmade.

At 20,000 square feet, the free-span sound stage at the Golden Era Productions film studio is one of the largest in North America. Rising 3 stories, it contains one of the largest cyclorama walls in the US and an 8,000-square-foot grid system.

Since 2005, Golden Era Productions has produced 1,626 films about the Scientology religion and its social betterment programs, furthering the international dissemination of the results of L. Ron Hubbard’s work.

The film lab at Golden Era Productions houses technically advanced methods for restoring filmed lectures of Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard. In 2006, a 70-person team saw to the landmark restoration and preservation of the only filmed lecture series by Mr. Hubbard.

In Golden Era Productions'state-of-the-art film lab.

Every stage of film processing is done in-house on customized machinery maintained at aerospace clean room standards.

The Golden Era Productions Post Production facility receives and handles an average of 130 hours of footage per week from shoot crews on the property and from over 200 countries around the world.

In Golden Era Productions’ editing facilities, 83 international broadcast events totaling over 1,700 hours have been produced since 2005.

The editing suites at Golden Era Productions produce all of L. Ron Hubbard’s instructional films, as well as educational films, documentaries and public service announcements based on his works, at high-definition broadcast quality for distribution in 17 languages.

The design of the L. Ron Hubbard Music Studio simulates a concert hall, complete with audience, an atmosphere that inspires the finest creativity and performance by artists.

The most advanced digital recording, reproduction and mixing equipment is used in the Golden Era Productions studios and mix-rooms to create, record and mix the sound tracks for all audiovisual products for the Scientology religion.

The most advanced digital recording, reproduction and mixing equipment is used in the Golden Era Productions studios and mix-rooms to create, record and mix the sound tracks for all audiovisual products for the Scientology religion.

The Golden Era Production audio facilities uses cutting-edge digital equipment to design and engineer all film soundtracks for release and playback in stereo as well as 5.1 cinema surround sound.

The Lecture Production Department at Golden Era Productions utilizes customized equipment and innovative audio technology to accomplish the recovery and digital restoration of L. Ron Hubbard’s recorded lectures so they are accessible to all.

In 2009, Golden Era Productions completed a 25-year program to recover, verify and restore the Scripture of the Scientology religion, inclusive of all L. Ron Hubbard’s recorded lectures, over 2,500 lectures in total.

Golden Era Productions’ sophisticated restoration software and equipment is specifically customized to restore the full library of L. Ron Hubbard’s spoken word, comprising the recorded legacy of his 50 years of research and discovery.

The Audio Recording and Mixing facilities reproduce the films, documentaries and public service announcements based on the works of L. Ron Hubbard in up to 50 non-English languages for international distribution and broadcast.

The staff at Golden Era Productions are all members of the Church’s fraternal order, the Sea Organization, and take part in religious studies and vocational training at the in-house college.

Golden Era Productions staff avail themselves of Scientology spiritual counseling called “auditing”—codified procedures that enable a person to improve his life, by placing him in better control of himself and his mind.

Scientology spiritual counseling as well as religious studies of Scripture are available for the Sea Organization members who staff Golden Era Productions.

Accommodations at Golden Era Productions are located on the southern grounds of the property and were designed to comfortably house the full complement of in-house staff.

As is traditional for a religious community, Golden Era Productions houses its entire staff on the property, providing living quarters, full service meals, a college for religious studies and vocational training and facilities for extracurricular activities.

The staff of Golden Era Productions is provided with living quarters, all comfortably appointed and in close proximity to production areas of the campus.

Available for special occasions such as staff weddings, events or weekend activities, Golden Era’s “Star of California” is a local landmark. Modeled after an 1820’s Clipper ship, it also holds a Polynesian garden, an Olympic-sized pool, Jacuzzi and a bird sanctuary.

DAVID MISCAVIGE:

A 21ST CENTURY RELIGION IN THE AGE OF MULTIMEDIA

Scientology is truly a religion for the 21st century and so utilizes new-millennium technology to carry out its religious mission. To that end, the Church moved into the multimedia age with establishment of state-of-the-art film and audio facilities at Golden Era Productions. Set on 500 acres in Southern California, this is the worldwide dissemination center for the entire Scientology religion, responsible for all film, video, television, Internet and international event production.

It is here the staff of Golden Era Productions produces audiovisual informational and training materials for use within Scientology Churches, as well as films and public service announcements centered on Church-sponsored social betterment activities and humanitarian initiatives.

The focal point of Golden Era Productions is the 80,000-square-foot film studio. The main sound stage rises more than three stories, with an interior the size of a football field.

Final production of the religious audiovisual properties filmed at Golden Era Productions is accomplished in the cutting-edge post-production facilities, which include six fully digital editing suites, while to create any required digital effects, Golden Era’s special effects department harnesses more than 500 computers with the computing power of 6,360 billion calculations per second.

Moreover, all religious film and video musical scores are produced and mixed in-house in Golden Era’s recording studios. The audio division facilities were designed to meet every production need: from an 84-track studio large enough to accommodate an orchestra, to a 112-track 5.1 cinema surround sound mixing studio.

Golden Era Productions is likewise responsible for the production of all L. Ron Hubbard recorded lectures on Dianetics and Scientology. The lecture studios feature one-of-a-kind echo chambers, used in the restoration and reproduction of Mr. Hubbard’s recordings and built to Golden Era's specifications.

Additionally, there is an entire building devoted to recording translations of Scriptural and other religious materials, where a bank of digital studios operates 24 hours a day. It is here that foreign-language voice talent record Mr. Hubbard’s translated lectures on Dianetics and Scientology in 15 languages.

Cutting-Edge Film Restoration & Preservation

The last decade saw the restoration and release of L. Ron Hubbard filmed lectures and an exclusive interview with Mr. Hubbard. The first to be restored was the Clearing Congress films, a series of six lectures delivered in Washington, D.C. in 1958. The next release, in 2006, was the only filmed interview of L. Ron Hubbard, An Introduction to Scientology shot in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1966. The final restoration was completed and released in 2008, the Classification and Gradation film—shot at the Scientology headquarters in Sussex, England in 1965.

The condition of these films had greatly deteriorated over the ensuing years. The project to fully restore and preserve them was initiated by Mr. David Miscavige and carried out by a 70-person team in Golden Era Productions’ film lab. All told, more than 620,000 frames of the original negatives were digitally scanned, meticulously cleaned by hand and fully restored. The result: Scientologists and the general public now and for all time can experience these seminal lecture series and the exclusive L. Ron Hubbard interview for themselves.